Was just thinking what happened to Rory Stewart? Looked him up was pro remain, tried to steer the cons to a "moderate" brexit deal. That didn't happen!
He stated he wouldn't serve in Johnson, and resigned from the government. He voted with labour for staying in the customs union, an action for which he was expelled from the cons. He stood down as an MP in 2019. Now lecturing on international relations at Yale.
The guy might have gnashers that would give even klopp nightmares (!) but imo I think he always came across as essentially decent. Compare him with some of the odious twats now in government. Much as I disliked her, with the benefit of hindsight, Theresa May at least functioned as a leader, who could speak with gravitas. She also spoke out against Russian infiltration of British institutions. However she was fatally compromised by the everarching need to keep the cons united, to the detriment of the national interest.
Politics, like football journalism, has become incredibly polarised, based on who's got the best soundbites on the evening news. This government has staggered punch drunk from one crisis to the next, full of bluster and empty promises. Where the fuck have the opposition been?????
The country and the world all seem to be lurching inexorably to the right. I'm ashamed that as a nation we have made in incredibly difficult for refugees from fucking warzones to seek sanctuary here.
We've been played big style by the Russians, isolated and irrelevant. I thought at the time of the brexit vote that we needed a government of national unity. I think that's needed n of w more than ever, perhaps as a prelude to full transparency on the machinery of politics and how it's funded. It would be nice to believe there are sensible politicians who are prepared to work together in the country's need.
Otherwise we really will be a small island off the coast of Europe, living off past glories, a nation of haves and have-nots, a very disunited kingdom.
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